“Wag the Dog” is a political strategy in which a national leader starts a military operation to divert negative attention away from himself. In 1997, Hollywood produced a Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman movie by the same name about
Hundreds of protesters staged a rally in rain-hit Hong Kong Saturday to urge the city’s government not to extradite former spy Edward Snowden and slam the US for its surveillance programmes. Snowden, 29, has gone to ground in the city
WAM MOSCOW, June 15th, 2013 – Russia will use its presidency of the G20 to push for a radical overhaul of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and changes to its voting system to give developing economies a stronger voice, President
CHINA — A Chinese woman almost lost her life savings recently when termites invaded a wooden drawer in which she kept a plastic bag containing 400,000 yuan: the equivalent of $65,000 U.S. dollars. It was only after the woman decided to
Asian markets took a pounding on Thursday as Japanese stocks plunged 6.4%, rendering big losses in China and Southeast Asia. The Nikkei has lost 21% from its high of 15,942 five-and-a-half years ago. Analysts say today’s mass sell-off is an
What sounds like hyperbole coming from the Oscar-winning director, really isn’t. Steven Spielberg is watching studio after studio put all its chips on one tent-pole film after another and understands that eventually “a half dozen or so $250 million movies
(AP) 3-D TV falls flat: ESPN to kill 3-D broadcastsBy PETER SVENSSON and RYAN NAKASHIMAAP Technology WritersNEW YORKESPN’s decision to shut down its 3-D channel by the end of the year is the latest sign the format won’t revolutionize entertainment
President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spoke by phone, days after the US leader met over the weekend with the president of China, the White House said in a statement. The two leaders on Wednesday “discussed the
Speaking to the South China Morning Post, Edward Snowden has revealed the NSA has been hacking computers since 2009, including computers in China. “Snowden said that according to unverified documents seen by the Post, the NSA had been hacking computers
Former Vice President Al Gore released his mud chakra Tuesday, slinging the slime at the Koch brothers. Speaking of the Keystone XL Pipeline, Gore stated: And they want to put a pipeline right down through very environmentally sensitive parts of
Bombshell revelations about the United States’ wide-reaching surveillance programmes could spur China and other countries to expand their own efforts, Beijing-based dissident Ai Weiwei warned on Wednesday. America’s huge dragnet of Internet and phone data, exposed in recent days through
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 6/11: secretive team of NSA hackers and spies targets China, social media is full of narcissists, social media forces mainstream media to cover Turkey protests, Julian Assange appealed for secret
What do Chinese government whistleblowers have in common with Marilyn Monroe, Gennifer Flowers, Camilla Parker Bowles, Lucy Mercer, and Monica Lewinsky? That’s correct; they are all mistresses. Many mistresses of government officials in China are causing an upheaval with revelations destroying the
There is no better sign of a scandal getting serious then when your most loyal supporters turn on you. If the White House has been monitoring The Late Show with David Letterman with the same scrutiny reserved for our e-mails
According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the Russians are considering granting political asylum to Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower/traitor. Snowden, a government contractor, revealed the existence of a massive National Security Agency surveillance operation last week. Kommersant daily quoted President Vladimir Putin’s
Edward Snowden, the 29-year old who blew the whistle on the NSA’s surveillance programs, claims that China is not an enemy of the United States. When asked if Americans may suspect he is hiding in Hong Kong in order to
(AP) Leak of NSA programs tests US, China tiesBy GILLIAN WONGAssociated PressBEIJINGA day after the presidents of China and the United States ended their first summit, pledges of cooperation by the two leaders faced an early test from an unexpected
Former CIA officer Bob Baer said on CNN Sunday evening officials are speculating that Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing could be “potential Chinese espionage.” Snowden came forward yesterday and identified himself as the leaker of the NSA’s massive surveillance operation. Snowden revealed
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The deafening silence following the Xi Jinping / Barack Obama summit George W. Obama The deafening silence following the Xi Jinping / Barack Obama summit President Xi to meet Obama (Global Times) Prior to
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who claimed to The Guardian (UK) that he doesn’t “want to live in a society” that keeps tabs on all of its citizens, fled to Hong Kong in order to hide from the US government. Only
(AP) 2 Koreas talk in border village after tensionsBy FOSTER KLUG and YOUKYUNG LEEAssociated PressSEOUL, South KoreaGovernment delegates from North and South Korea began preparatory talks Sunday at a “truce village” on their heavily armed border aimed at setting ground
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com China’s Xi Jinping and Obama endorse ‘new model’ of relationship Churchill and FDR never met Hitler Pakistan strongly protests Friday’s drone strike China’s Xi Jinping and Obama endorse ‘new model’ of relationship Xi and
The Guardian has uncovered a Presidential Policy Directive in which Obama ordered national security and intelligence officials to compile a list of overseas targets for U.S. cyber attacks. The directive–number 20–was issued in October 2012 but never published. According to
(AP) – The United States and China are in “uncharted waters” as they tackle the contentious issue of cybersecurity, President Barack Obama said following the opening round of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit in the California
